Re: People, I just want to say, can we all drown alone?

I've seen the video - I don't really see anyone resisting arrest. I see someone cowering on the ground. This description is pretty much how I remember it:

"An amateur cameraman caught the scene as four white police officers struck King more than 50 times with their wooden batons and used a stun gun on him.

King said as the officers beat him, they yelled, "We are going to kill you, n***er," although the officers denied using racial slurs.

The video shows King cowering on the ground and attempting to crawl away as he is surrounded by a crowd of police officers. Four of them used their nightsticks to strike him.

King was beaten nearly to death. Three surgeons operated on him for five hours."

The LA Police Department then was notorious for this shit. I don't care if he was drunk, violating parole, peeing on a picture of Jesus and swinging wildly. The job of our police is to shut such a person down and transport them safely to custody. No one deserves what Rodney King got except maybe Sandusky - but even there, I don't want anyone on the public's payroll delivering it.

Thank goodness the LAPD has turned itself around. Into a model even - as noted by how well they've handled crowd control and protest in the past year. The Rodney King beating was a low moment for the man.